BAA, the airport operator, has questioned the recent immigration queues at Heathrow Airport, which have been too long, with some passengers standing far outside the immigration hall, only to encounter empty passport control desks and uninterested staff. On Friday passengers at Terminal 4 were stuck in half-mile queues, starting long before they even got to the immigration hall. They said that once they got there, two out of three desks…

From October 28, low-cost airline Easyjet is adding extra flights on a number of its several routes from Belfast International Airport. On the Manchester route the number of flights will increase from two to three on Monday, Thursday and Friday. Last year, the new route to Manchester was launched by Easyjet. The two daily flights to Manchester, with fares from £21.99 one way, including taxes, were introduced. On the Edinburgh…

Building a third runway in the world’s busiest airport London Heathrow Airport was brought back by the Prime Minister yesterday to the Tory agenda to increase airport’s capacity in the south-east of England. The possibility of the construction of a third runway was strongly opposed by the Conservatives in their last manifesto. The Coalition Agreement also did not accept the prospect of including the U-turn. Notwithstanding objection from both the…

Over 1,500 airline passengers, who were to arrive at London Gatwick Airport, faced disruption after 24 flights were unable to land at the airport due to the combination of poor visibility and runway repair. According to the reports, passengers of Easyjet, British Airways and Thomson had to be diverted to Stansted, Luton and Bristol airports. It is that hoped services would have returned to normal at airport this morning. Affected passengers are being put on coaches…

After Boris Johnson expressed concern that the immigration queues at London’s Heathrow Airport are damaging Britain’s reputation abroad, airport authorities are drawing up a plan to sort out chaos by levying higher landing fees to fund more border staff. In previous weeks, passengers arriving at BAA operated Heathrow suffered delays at passport control. Complaints of empty border control desks and the failure of iris scanners brought in to speed up…